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Hundreds were without power Thursday morning after a series of fierce thunderstorms swept through the state Tuesday.More than 600 Eversource electricity customers remained without power as of 6:45 a.m., and 13 customers of United Illuminating in the...

A tornado watch and severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for much of the state as storms begin to move in Tuesday afternoon.
The watch is in effect in Hartford, Tolland and Windham counties from 3:45 p.m. until 11 p.m., according to the NWS....

As we fearlessly — or fearfully — march toward winter's peak, people inevitably turn to weather forecasts to try to anticipate when roads will be treacherous, whether offices and schools may be closed, and how much they'll have to shovel from their...

A small tornado touched down in Worcester, Mass. Sunday night, according to the National Weather Service.The agency confirmed in a statement early Monday that an EF-0 tornado touched down causing a 1.7-mile long path of damage shortly after 8 p.m. An EF-0...

A weak tornado touched down briefly in the area of Wolcott High School and severe thunderstorms left a trail a damage through northern part of the state Sunday afternoon and evening.
Several streets in Enfield were closed and more than 3,000 people...

Forecasting the weather -- or trying to -- is as old as civilization.
Around 340 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle wrote a four-volume text exploring the origins and dynamics of different weather events.
Still, for many hundreds of years, weather...

Hartford's signature industry — insurance — started by offering financial protection against fire damage, but as the property-casualty business evolved the biggest threat to property became weather in all its extreme variations: tornadoes, hurricanes,...

When the first settlers arrived in the 1600s, among the things they were unprepared for in Connecticut was the weather. Owing to its geographical location, the new land they were seeking to inhabit produced an ever-changing array of meteorological...

A possible tornado was spotted moving through Coventry into Mansfield Wednesday evening as storms moved across the state, dumping heavy rain, knocking down trees and power lines and prompting tornado warnings in Tolland and Windham counties.
The National...

ENFIELD — The National Weather Service has confirmed that a third tornado touched down in the state on Monday, this one in Enfield.
The tornado came from the same storm as the twister that hit the Windsor Locks area on Monday afternoon, the NWS said on...

WINDSOR — When a small tornado tore through OJ Thrall's tobacco fields in Windsor on Monday afternoon, the fragile leaves were within a week of being harvested.
Shade nets were torn away from nearly 20 percent of the crop — about 40 acres' worth — and...

Connecticut seems to be New England's tornado alley, and the Connecticut River Valley a particularly favorite twister path.
Tornadoes like Monday's have become, alas, a familiar sight in this state. Connecticut had the greatest tornado density in New...

A tornado lashed its way across Windsor, Windsor Locks and East Windsor Monday afternoon, toppling trees, taking down power lines, tearing apart an inflatable sports dome and ripping tobacco netting from fields and draping it across houses and I-91.
Only...

AIR Worldwide on Tuesday provided an early estimate of damage caused by the massive tornado that ravaged Moore, Okla., on Monday.The catastrophe-modeling company is estimating damage based on two possible scenaries. The company said that on the low end...

Natural disasters in 2012 cost insurance companies about $58 billion, making it the second-most expensive year ever in the U.S., exceeded only by 2005 when hurricanes Katrina and Rita smashed into the Gulf Coast.
Far and away the biggest factor in the...

Between Connecticut and Massachusetts, on one side of the border or the other, there are usually four tornadoes a year. Some suggest the border is a low-grade, tornado alley. The storms usually are weak. Some years are exceptional.
Like this year.
At...